As the unemployment rate continues to shrink to figures not seen for nearly half a century, it’s becoming more and more important for college graduates to prepare for a competitive workforce.

This means picking the right major, having a great internship and work experiences, creating the perfect college resume, but most of all, choosing the right college to attend in the first place.

If you missed our study last year about the best college in each state for finding a job, check it out.

Given that a new crop of recent grads just entered the workforce (welcome to the Thunderdome, class of 2018), we figured we’d redo our analysis for the newest bunch, and see which schools set their students up best for success after graduation.

Below is a list of the top 50, but first, here’s the best of the best:

Pennsylvania – Lebanon Valley College
Rhode Island – Salve Regina University
Ohio – Ohio Northern University
Oregon – Oregon Health & Science University
New York – Hobart and William Smith Colleges
South Dakota – University of Sioux Falls
Wisconsin – University of Wisconsin – Platteville
Massachusetts – Endicott College
Nebraska – Nebraska Wesleyan University
Connecticut – Quinnipiac University

Using the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and Department of Education College Scorecard data, we searched for the college in each state with the highest listed job placement ratings, looking specifically at employment levels at year 10 after students start.

Then, we looked at the ratings themselves and ranked each state’s top school according to their rating. For the purposes of readability, the top schools’ ratings were then rounded down to the last three decimal places, and we included the city the top ten colleges are located in.

Ok, that’s it! Now, onto the list.

1. PENNSYLVANIA

College: Lebanon Valley College
City: Annville
Placement Rate: 96.185%
LVC tops the rankings as the best college in the United States for finding a job. With 40+ majors and just a 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio, career guidance is a big deal at LVC, and it shows with their ranking.

2. RHODE ISLAND

College: Salve Regina University
City: Newport
Placement Rate: 95.896%
Besides its campus emitting images of Hogwarts, Salve Regina University’s second best quality is getting its graduates jobs. The school keeps growing, as it just graduated its largest class ever.

3. OHIO

College: Ohio Northern University
City: Ada
Placement Rate: 95.527%
ONU consistently beats the placement rate national average for its graduates.

4. OREGON

College: Oregon Health & Science University
City: Portland
Placement Rate: 95.509%
It isn’t too often one can say their campus is a hospital, but such is the case with Oregon Health & Science University, with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland.

5. NEW YORK

College: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
City: Geneva
Placement Rate: 95.447%
Another college with a picturesque campus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges is one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country. Many of their students take advantage of their reputed study abroad programs, as well.

6. SOUTH DAKOTA

College: University of Sioux Falls
City: Sioux Falls
Placement Rate: 95.428%
The private liberal arts university only has about 1,500 students, but gets the vast majority of those students jobs after graduation.

7. WISCONSIN

College: University of Wisconsin – Platteville
City: Platteville
Placement Rate: 95.337%
With an in-state tuition of just above $7,500, Wisconsin-Platteville offers one of the best bang-for-your buck educations for any in-state school.

8. MASSACHUSETTS

College: Endicott College
City: Beverly
Placement Rate: 95.309%
Alright, we’re serious this time. Endicott College may have the best looking campus in the country. Just do yourself a favor and google it. With 90% of employed graduates working in careers related to their major, the #views aren’t the only reason to attend Endicott.

9. NEBRASKA

College: Nebraska Wesleyan University
City: Lincoln
Placement Rate: 95.217%
NWU is a private, coeducational university in the state’s capital. Bringing some shine the college is the fact that it is among the nation’s leaders in Fulbright scholars.

10. CONNECTICUT

College: Quinnipiac University
City: Hamden
Placement Rate: 95.172%
If you start at Quinnipiac, you aren’t likely to leave – the university boasts a retention rate of 90% from first to second-year students. The school is also among the best colleges for veterans.

Here are the rest of the states:

This article first appeared on Zippia.

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